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Technical Information

Competition format

On the VI edition of International Trophy Ciutat de Barcelona it is a two day individual Orienteering event.

The VI edition of the International Trophy “Ciutat de Barcelona” will be a two day individual Orienteering event. The first race will take place on the Barcelona seafront on Saturday 20th. A typical urban Sprint including a park area and other urban areas. The second race will take place around the Olympic Ring and Montjuïc Castle, where you will enjoy stunning views over Barcelona, with some forest ground and also an sprint-like area around the Olympic Stadium

The final standings for all categories on the overall two day trophy will be obtained by adding up the points obtained in both races, according to the Standard method (1000+ 200*(average time - runner time)/standard deviation), implemented in MTPoints for MT2003 Sportsoftware. It is important to notice that final standings for the two races may differ of those obtained using other methods as the Scotish method (1000*winner time/runner time) or simply adding race times as sprint and long race are quite different in both length and techical characteristics.

Rules

The race will follow IOF rules. Timekeeping for all classes, including AD and KD, will be done using SportIdent system. The sportident card will be provided by the organisation at no cost (but a deposit will be required).

Given the type of race, no courses will be cancelled under any claim including:

  • Missing control (marker and/or Sportident base)
  • Wrong control code
  • Wrong location of control

Given any reclamation due to one of these reasons, the technical jury may decide to cancel the legs, and only the legs, defined by the challenged control. Runners should consider this rule under any inconvenience during the race and try to finish it.

Prizes

A total cash amount of 3800€ will be allocated for the first three places on ME and WE:

ME WE
1rst Place 1000€ 1000€
2nd Place 600€ 600€
3rd Place 300€ 300€

Prizes for first 3 places on all other categories

Saturday Course

The Saturday is a sprint race, which is run by the Barceloneta, the sailor district of Barcelona. The terrain includes beach area and urban parks. It is a very fast race, a classic sprint in an environment where narrow streets will demand high concentration on map reading. Please respect the many tourists who are in the area. The area will be open to traffic.

The map scale is 1:5000 and equidistance of 5 meters, made by Rui Antunes in June 2009, it is NOT drawn according to ISSOM 2007, although it is quite close. Therefore, disqualification according to ISSOM 2007 will not be applied. The elite class runners will begin starts at 10.00 pm These runners will be enclosed on the finsh area from 9.30 am, and after this time can no longer leave the quarantine zone. After the last start of the elite runners, at 10.40, all other classes will begin starts

Map change for ME and WE:

Only the classes WE and ME will have a map change. Follow the directions of the organization and the marked corridors. The second map scale is 1:1000 (one to thousand), something unusual that may compromise runner concentration. This second map does not follow IOF rules, although the cartography is quite similar: the control points may be close together, up to 10 m apart, so runners should carefully consider the symbology and code of each control.:

Map collection. After the race participants are required to leave their map classified by federation (with the exception of Catalonia, which are collected by clubs) until the start of las runner. Race planners fo the sprint and Marc Ràfols and Pol Ràfols.:

Attention: it is very important to note that the traffic open, and therefore every runner must be careful whenever crossing streets. There are some passages marked on the map. At this point (zebra crossings), the staff of the race will cut the traffic allow the runners crossing, so it is recommended but not required to go through these points. However, it is mandatory to follow areas marked with dotted line.

Sunday Course

CircuitClassDistanceClimbControls
C1 HE 3300m 20m 20
C2 DE 2900m 20m 19
C3 H35 3100 15m 18
C4 H21-H20 3000m 15m 15
C5 D35-H40 2300m 15m 16
C6 D40-H45 2300m 10m 12
C7 D45-H50 2100m 10m 13
C8 D21-D20-H18 2900m 15m 15
C9 D18-H16 2600m 15m 15
C10 D50-H55 1900m 10m 13
C11 D16-H14 2400m 10m 15
C12 D14 2000m 10m 13
C13 H12-D12 1300m 5m 9
C14 H21B 2500m 15m 16
C15 D21B 2400m 10m 15
C16 Adults 3400m 15m 17
C17 Kids 1200m 5m 9

The second race of the Ciutat de Barcelona will be in the form of a long race, around the Castle of Montjuic and the Olympic Ring. The start will be at the competition centre: Pau Negre Stadium, where there will also be the finish line and the award ceremony.

The race is run at Montjuïc, and is characterized by the abundance of parks, small white forests and the castle, which overlooks the city harbor and all the surroundings. Despite the climb implied by the terrain, the race pace will be high. On this second day of elite runners will leave once they have left the other classes. There will be a control that can be seen by the public for all classes except adults and kids begginers.

Map scale 1:7500 and 5 m equidistance made by Rui Antunes in June 2009. Special emphasis on the large number of elements, which makes advisable, even at this scale, the use of a magnifying glass.

Race plannesr: Pol Ràfols and and Marc Ràfols (view old map - relay race of  TICBCN'08)

Note: Traffic will be open. Although traffic will be limited on these areas, it is very important to watch every time they cross the streets. There is a mandatory passage after the public control that will be supervised by staff of the competition, stopping the traffic every time a runner needs to cross.

Works: Both Saturday and Sunday races are developed in urban terrain, and works that might not exist at the time of printing the map may appear at race time. In the same way, the parks service can change the green zones of the long race if they work in any not expected area.

Provisioning: apart from public fountains that are all along the route, there will be a point of supplies in the race.

CircuitClassDistanceClimbControls
C1 ME 9300m 335 29
C2 WE 8100m 275m 28
C3 M35 8100m 285m 28
C4 M21-M20 8700m 290m 14
C5 W35-M40 7500m 215m 27
C6 W40-M45 6100m 200m 21
C7 W45-M50 5400m 180m 20
C8 W21-W20-M18 6500m 190m 22
C9 W18-M16 5700m 160m 20
C10 W50-M55 4900m 150m 17
C11 W16-M14 4800m 145m 18
C12 W14 4100m 125m 16
C13 W12-M12 1900m 35m 10
C14 M21B 5200m 155m 18
C15 W21B 5100m 145m 16
C16 Adults Begginers 5400m 130m 19
C17 Kids Begginers 1500m 30m 9

Organized by:

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With support from:

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